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Wednesday, January 3, 2007

THE WORST DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR HAS COME AND GONE: DEATH OF A BLOGGER

So glad to have this day over, notoriously the worst day of the school year. And returning to school I discovered that my friend, Karen, had died on New Year's Eve. She was a lifelong teacher on my team, and passed on at the age of 56. A health fanatic, she leaves us all wondering whether this life... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 2, 2007

BLOGGING WITH THE HOMIES "Now When You Say Homies..."

We are just out of the E R. She has a fractured nose, but it's straight and doesn't need to be set. She has to go to a specialist in a week to see if it will heal straight. Her friends from the college all piled into the examination room. Nice and cozy. The demographics were suffering fate's slings... Sign in to see full entry.

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OK, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS. I AM IN THE E R...

I got a call around 7:15 tonight. I was watching the Weather Channel. My 18 year old daughter, CNA at a care facility for brain damage patients, was assisting a nurse and another CNA change an adult male, roughly 5'10",220 lbs. When she was punched in the nose. It doesn't look too bad, but we want... Sign in to see full entry.

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BLOGGERS FACE SPECIFIC CHALlLENGES FOr THE NEW YEAR

Goals, different from objectives, need to be set and reaffirmed at the start of each new term. My long term goals are to have everyone reading, writing and figuring arithmetic at one to five years higher on the academic scale than they were when they started the school year. We have school-wide math... Sign in to see full entry.

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BLOGGER ON THIRD CONSECUTIVE NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP.

Exoecting the worst. Everyone is home asleep. My mother, although sad and lonely after the death of her second son, her housemate, is fine and strong. School starts for me in twenty-four hours. My kids have an extra day. They go back Thursday. On New Year's Eve we got snow and freezing rain, but we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

BLOGGER S-O-S FROZEN AND STRANDED IN ICE

The winter storms have missed us so far from the start. Thanksgiving, everyone will remember was the start of the troubles for Seattle and they had several more storms in the ensuing weeks. Illinois got two feet of snow, Missouri got two feet of snow twice, Colorado stranded thousands of passengers... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

Tonight the USA Has Joined the Civil War in Iraq, On the Side of the Shiite

For anyone who wonders when the new policy of the Americans in Iraq will begin, it's already happened. It happened tonight at just before nine Central. Personally I thought they would let him go, for old times sake, but no. As for any change in direction in the Iraq Civil War, it is evident now with... Sign in to see full entry.

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WOW! I JUST TURNED ON THE COMPUTER TO FIND 4,000 CLICKS & TONS OF COMMENTS

Thank you everyone. I will have to post my name the tune and tunesmith blog from the road. My mother is waiting for her dinner. i just dropped youngest daughter at the SUPERSTORE, and yes she is finishing the year there. I hope she works there forever -- she says she hates it, but what she really... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 28, 2006

MICHAEL CRICHTON -- NEXT

After extensive research behavioral psychologists have concluded, with the help of the chicken, that, faced with two unacceptable choices, an organism, man or animal, will choose a third, albeit inane option. A chicken, when faced with an attackung dog on the ground, and a hawk above, will stop and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

DREAM GIRLS, AND ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS DREAM! YEP, THAT'S THEM.

Or better! Oh baby, what a movie. Old fashioned musical. Now tonight I'm on my own. Both girls are at their respective activities, so I got to choose the movie. I did not get the girls' names, but we will see them again! Perhaps on Emmy night? Or Oscar night! O Yes, Beonce! She was even prettier... Sign in to see full entry.

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Traditonal life in American mainstream education. Area of concentration -- English as a Second Language. My take on the issues and "what really works" (when my kids let me log on).

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